PresidentDonald Trump referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman as a "lowlife" and a "dog" in tweets on Tuesday morning, according to CBSNews... "I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have ... "I am trying to find at least what context it was used in to help us maybe try to figure out a way to spin it," Pierson is heard saying on the recording....

The US Air Force paid $480 million for a second top-spec hypersonic missile prototype to gain ground “in the era of great power competition,” following reports of Russia’s successes in developing unrivaled high-speed weapons ... ....

A motorway bridge that collapsed inGenoa, Italy, on Tuesday, killed at least 22 people and the death toll will rise, Italian deputy transport minister Edoardo Rixi has said in a television interview ... The bridge collapsed in the northwestern Italian city of Genoa during a storm, sending about 20 vehicles plunging 260ft into a heap of rubble below ... “We are following minute by minute the situation for the bridge collapse in Genoa.”....

Mr Markle claimed in the interview with the Mail on Sunday that while recovering in hospital from a heart attack he had been berated on the phone by Prince Harry and had hung up on the prince. Royal aides are said to be plotting ways to rein in his public outbursts about his daughter’s relationship with Prince Harry and the family....

The defense for Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort rested its case on Tuesday morning without calling any witnesses in the ongoing bank and financial fraud trial against the former political lobbyist, according to CNN... Manafort is facing 18 charges of financial crimes but has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges in the first major case brought to trial by prosecutors from the special counsel Robert Mueller....

It’s been a strange three months for the Hawaii island village of Volcano, where thousands of earthquakes have rattled the residents of this small mountainside town since Kilauea began erupting in May ... Volcano, a tiny tourist town nestled in a high elevation forest, is a scant five miles from the caldera of Kilauea volcano ... On a particularly active day, the more sensitive people in town felt dozens of them....

In an series of unprecedented moves Tuesday, the US state of Nebraska not only carried out its first execution in nearly a generation, but authorities used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out the death sentence, the Washington Post reported ... He was sentenced to death for killing two Omaha cabdrivers in1979 ... local time at the state penitentiary inLincoln, the capital, the report said....

Showing no signs of backing down in his country’s stand-off with America, Mr Erdogan suggested that Turkey would stop procuring US-made iPhones and buy Korean Samsung or Turkish-made Vestel devices instead....

Officials said at least 24 people were killed and another 19 injured after a bus slid into another vehicle while driving at high speed on a highway known as dead man's curve inEcuador on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press... The accident happened on the Pifo-Papallacta road, which is considered one of the most dangerous roads in the South American country....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven is lashing out at those who set fire to dozens of cars in southwest Sweden, asking them “what the heck are you doing?”. Lofven says in a Swedish radio interview that he is “really ......

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian official says a notorious special police force in the country’s Somali region killed 41 people and wounded 20 others as ethnic violence poses a challenge to the reformist new prime minister....

Pro-EU campaigners have warned “Brexodus” has hit the UK after new data revealed a record drop in the number of EU workers ... year following June 2017 – the most dramatic fall since records began in1997. It means the number of European nationals in the UK now sits at 2.28 million....